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Show THE HOME SENTINEL. TRACED BY THE BUTTONS ISYTMi; .KTIH. l'lllMs.UM. C. Bl'OIiV OK THK OKTKI TIOX OK A X. II. MnaeT. ri M-.- UTAH. MANTI. Will not some humanitarian offer a series of cash prizes of great value to the congressmen who introduce the fewest Dills? The story of Cinderella" and her slipper is known to bo olu, but who would believe that it is so old as to have been a chestnut in the time of the youthful days of the first historian? Tiie great mass of Amer icans, loyal, are earnest, intelligent, men who earn their bread by the sweat of their brow. They are farmor unsKiiled ers, handicraftsmen, laborers. This country has been extremely liberal in the matter of pensions. As a generous friend of the soldier and of his widow and his orphan, the American republic is indisputably first among the nations of the world. Names are merely nominal, Brus-sel- s sprouts are not eaten in Brussels. Ilrussels carpets are made in Glasgow, and Axminsters in Wilton. Copenhagen watches are made in Switzerland, and Paris hats in Danbury. The prince of Wales life is declared to be in danger, lie may not live as long as bis regal mother. 11c is not an old man, but be has onlarged the and the aperture in the hour-glas- s sands have run rapidly. And the question arises. Who will bo liis successor? The statement that there is nothing new under the sun has been so often repeated that the expression itself is a chestnut 'The stories which amuse the children and maturer generation of y were not composed nor constructed yesterday. They are only edited. 1 Under the new order of things in tho Agricultural department of tho country in successful efforts are being mado to more fully develop Western resources than were ever mado before. The department accepts no mans conclusions. It makes its own experiments and reachos its own conclusions. The increase of population in Chicago is enormous. The character of that population is vastly diversified, for all Kuropo and part of Asia contribute to tho mass. Thousands of its people are speaking and tens of thousands of them havo vague Ideas of tho rights of citizenship. non-Engli- sh Moses Harris, of (burette rest, G. A. K., of Warrcnsburg, N. Y., is supposed to bo the oldest Grand Army man in the state. Harris is eighty-foyours old. ile has seen twenty yoars of army life, and fought in four wars Black Hawk, Seminole, Moxi-ca- a and tho war of tho rebellion. ur The Jews aro said to bo rapidly increasing in numbers, wealth and influence in New York. Four now synagogues were rerontly opened within the spaco of ten days, and tho city now has forty-seve- n of these places of worship, which is a larger number than cau be found in any other city in tho world. Am American spent two years in Belgium and never saw an umbrella or of any sort. When it a water-proo- f rains in that country the people eithor remain under cover until tho storm is over or go out to get soaked. As a rule a rainy day has no effect on ttio people, though they do shelter their horses. Boston has become civilizod. It is too literary: Tho llubbites yearn for of Egypt the flesh-pot- s They aro tired of beans and brown bread. They are weary of being prim. Nothing demonstrates this so effectually as tho founding of an organization known as The Wharf Hats. Tho membership Is mado m of tho greatest swe Us in town. The old story which Sidney Smith tells of an Irishman looking over his shoulder while he was composing a . letter, of his writing T would say moro but an impudent fellow stands here reading every word," and of the Irishman exclaiming, "Ye lio, I haven't read a word, is said to bo soveral hundred years older than tho New Testament. Within tho memory of the older generation twelve hours was a days labor. There was a time when fourteen hours was insisted upon. The proposition to drop from twelve to ten was urged by the employed and resisted by employers as a dangerous proceeding, productive of great loss, and certain to revolutionize tho industries and all society. A NATIONAL. MUiDKU. Minister who Shut Down one of His Deacons. The detective stories nowadays, remarked a veteran thief-take- r to a Memphis Appeal reporter, "are alxvay s highly colored ami overdrawn to suit readthe imagination of the small-howhom they are written. ers, A detective of considerable prominence, w ho was in the employ of the iinkertons once, related to me his progress in a very nix stm ions murder ea-- e w hieli had startled the entire Ea-- t ered. One of when it hud been the wealthiest men ill a village, a coil in the church and a man beloved by all, bad mysteriously disappeared, and at the end of a week his body bad been found floating in a pool of water about ten miles from bis home. The body was naked, and the ghastly holes in the. back of the bead and the other in the left side told that lie bad been shot to death. lie was not known to have an enemy in the world, and robbery could not have been the object, as lie was a very plainly dressed man, and was never known to carry more than a few dollars at a time on his person. The aid of the liukerton agency was invoked, and they sent down my frieml to work upon the ease, be being particularly noted for bis success in working up murder eases. There wasnt a cine to guide him, and after looking over the field for a day or two be began to think that bis efforts were bound to end in failur There was no one w bom the murdered man's deatli could benefit except his wife and son, who would come into bis property; but they were both away from home when lie disappeared and their every movement was accounted for. Finally the evening of the second d iv of his investigation lie got vvbat proved to bo a winning elite, but which at the time seemed very intangible. He was sitting in the shadow of some trees in the court-hous- e square when a great bulking fellow passed, whom be recognized ns Joseph Ward, the man of all work at the village pastors. 'Ward was not a favorite in the village, as he made no friends, never went out except on errands for the minister, and coldly repulsed any attempts on the part of tho villagers to make liis acquaintance. y fp di-c- As lie passed tho detective lie was talking to himself, and these words were plainly heard by the officer: D it, Im not going after the but no one will ever find them, and, tons; besides, they must be burnt up too. Ward bad not noticed the detective as he passed, and the latter kept still, pondering over the words lie bad beard. For nn instant it flashed over bis mind that it might refer to tho mysterious murder. The body when found was miked, and no trace had been gotten of the clothing the dead man wore. The words kept recurring to him, and a day or two afterwards, impelled by some motive, lie knew not vvbat, be visited the place vv hero the body lie wandered body was found. in the vicinity for an around hour or mure, and finally becoming tired walked to tho edge of a small wood a quarter of a mile away to rest in the shade. As lie was about to sit down on a log lie noticed the remains of an old tire a few yards away and lie walked towards it. AYhat he saw was startling to him. The fire had been mado of a great heap of pine needles. Now this of itself was not startling, but as it happened, there wasn't a pine tree in the whole wood, mid the neare-- t place that pine needles could be got was ut least ten miles away. Eagerly be examined the heap of ashes and charred pine needles, and liis search was rewarded at last by the finding of a half dozen or more burnt born buttons to which were attached heavy Almost like a wild metal shanks. man he returned to town and called on the widow of the murdered man-Froher lie learned that the coat worn by her husband mi the day of liis disappearance was au old broadcloth one, vviih heavy born and metal buttons sewed thereon. Two days after ho quietly arrested Joe Ward, not as the murderer, but accomplice. He broke down when confronted with our evidence and confessed all. The minister was the criminal, Startling as this limy seem, it was true. An eminent scientist has evolved the theory that water as an element to extinguish fires in large and high buildings is a failure. lie claims that when combustion evolves a certain intense degree of heat tho water thrown upon the flames emits a powerful volume of hydrogen which burns with frightful fury. This scientist sets up the theory Two years before the minister bad that these fires must bo treated in a different manner, and expresses the be- been guilty of a small torgery, vv hieli lief that gas will bo tho successful compelled him to leave bis place of residence in Vermont, and in some weapon with which to fight tiro at eom future day. a'-n- way the deacon found it out. I'carful the minister that be would beexpo-ed- , on the day of bis followed to a small farm some six or eight miles out of town. Nipping up behind the deacon in a wood he shot him in the back of the bead, and, as the deacon turned in falling, be shot him again in the side. He then put the body in the wagon, covered with pine needles and drove home. Leaving the wagon and its load stand in the yard until gha-tl- y midnight, be aroused Ward, cn whom be bad some bold, and c .impelled him to go vx itli him. They drove to tbexvooiLon the opposite side of the toxvn, stripped the body, carried it to the pool and threw it in, and then returning burnt the clothing in a fire made of the pine needles. Loading the' wagon with cord vxood they drove back to town. The minister, who bad noticed the buttons on the coat, happened to think that they might not liaxe been burned and bad ordered Ward to go and get them. That night the minister was arrested, and on liis trial was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. lie committed suicide in liis cell, boxvever, before the duv of execution. IT. SCI EXT! THE EOMANCE OF TIIE OIAET" VANDERBILT'S FIRST Boat. Die new steam cru-iGraduate NVho ( as Ills Ihihideipbta. vv ill have two electric lart with the Indians. light dams of the most approved pattern, and the There is upon the Yakeimt (Wa-h- .) Heservation a family of half breed? most compact system adapted to marine kpoxvn as the OIncxs, writes a Port- work. A land (Oregon) correspondent. There is at the Paris Exhibition a eon I name. romance is associated with vv hieli is worked digger by an electro The white father of the O.iexs died motor. By its aid a man and a helper recently, but to the la- -t f'ninned hi can undercut 11(1 tons of coal in ten own race. He vvas of a hi ffffly respecthours, in a seam six feet thick, and able Iihode Dland family ftul a graduthe power required for this at the fit ate of Yale College. Ab ut tin time head is a little over 2 2 hor-- e power. lie completed liis studies be discovery Experiments are now being made in of gold in California oei rred. Olney 41. Italy upon this year's vintage in tho came and tin: of Argonauts joined electrification of w ine. Fifty different We-- t to seek his fort une. Me left behind him Ids sweetheart, to whom he sorts of wine have already been experhave was to have been man led as soon as imented upon, and the been is The wine very satisfactory. be found the fortune and returned. is a and clarified, a? acquires of bouquet, The girl grew weary waiting, Inaid to stand equally well trail-po- rt many others of her sex have done. About a ear after be reached the coast. land or long journeys by si a. Olnev received a letter announcing tin The e of electricity in medicine is marriage of ids betrothed. lie never rapidly on the increase. At the last got over the blow. Drifting about lie meeting of the institute of Medical located in Oregon and was made Electricity in London the opinion was sheriH'of Wa-- o County. In those days expressed that tiie current course there usually was excitement enough promised to be of great practical serin the duties of sheriff to banish the vice, and vvas just the tiling wanted by memories of the past. During bis those members of the profession vx ho lie made many warm personal bad not hitherto made a careful reign study The Box on the llatform. s. At the dinner station, where we friends, but after a while Oiney got of sto peil one day on a certain Tennessee tired of hunting down criminals. He The adoption of the electric light iri crossed the Columbia railroad, almost the first sight which gave up hisoffiee, street ears would confer a boon on the Diver a. id became a member of the greeted the eyes of those who got off' inYakema tribe. His adoption vvas in travelling public, and would, if xvas a rough burial box on the platform, troduced gradually, not entail a very and seated near it vvas an old black good faith on bis part, for lie took au considerable initial outlay, although, A woman with a handkerchief to her Indian wife and raised a family. of course, the larger the number of his children grew up he educated them eves. When kindle asked the vehicles illuminated the cheaper would of her sorrow, she pointed to the bos with care, and when lie died he left be the cost in It is now proportion. them well provided for. The Olneys and replied: that a small battery capable suggested are influential in the tribe, and they Do ole man's in dar. of supplying sufficient current to two e that influence for good. pyerei-Your husband? twelve-candl- e power lamps for eight Yes; died two days ago back yore Mrs. Smith's Dilemma. hours should be placed under the car in do kentry. It is undoubtedly a delightful thing seat, ami this could be very easily carAnd vvbat arc you doing with the to be the mother of loving, pretty ried out. body here? daughters; but if they could be perThe further series of experiments I wants to bury it up at Charles- suaded to confine their affection to by the French Government in testing town, but I lmin't got money null to yourself instead of spreading it over the new electric submarine boat have take it on do railroad. all your personal effects, it would be The boat is eighproved satisfactory. What nonsense!" exclaimed a man, an improvement. Air. Smith says teen feet long nml five feet wide, nml as lie came forward. Whats the differoracularly : accommodates two persons. The hull ence where a nigger is buried? They My dear, see that the children are is a bronze easting capable of sustainwant her to bury it here, but she wont. furnished with all they need for their ing great presurc, and the boat, fully Shes determined to take it to Charles- own use, and then they wont meddle equipped, weighs five tons, loxver is town. with what belongs to you. obtained from an electric motor driven For what reason? asked the pasThis is like the usual profundity of by accumulators, which can be charged on female subjects. either from the shore or a senger who had put all the previous male remarks In ship. I done it? Havent I given the first series of Haven't questions. boat the experiments lease, sail, nil do fo chili'cu is those girls boots enough to stock a xvas submerged at a depth of thirty-thre- e buried up dar', an Ids nimbler an shop, in the vain hope that I might feet for eight hours, with a crew sister, nil do poo ole man will be indulge in vvbat seems to me not an un- of txvo sailors, the atmosphere being lonesome down yere. reasonable fancy, of being the solo maintained in a normal condition by a What bosh! growled the kicker. possessor of mine ; uml notwithstandsupply of compressed air. Look here! whispered the other, ing, when I desire to take a walk, are as be went over to him. I'd rather not the particular pair I want already Uncle Sam's Oldest Employee. be a nigger with her soul than to be a gone out airing, quite independent of One of the character and apparent white man with yours! She's right. iny matronly feet? Dont I daily fixtures of the Capitol is (apt. Bassett, Let the family dead sleep together. gnaw off my thread, and finger-nail- s the venerable doorkeeper of the SenHe entered the express office, paid for want of scissors, and are not my ate, says the littsburg Commercial for the shipment of the body, bought envelopes, r, cologne, seal- Gazettes Washington letter. He lias the widow a ticket to Charlestown, and every other ring, postage-stampassisted some of the most noted memand then dropped a $10 gold piece in movable, always gone when I want bers that ever sat in that body to sehand said: her and them? Why I tearfully ask is it, lect their seats and lias a little blue Give him a decent funeral, mammy, that, buy vvbat duplicates you w ill for book of bis own that contains infon-matio- n and this will put up a headboard to these grabsters, nothing is ever so good of a peculiarly interesting mark the grave. as mothers things? but which the old officer character, Mav the good Lavvd bless vou When I pour these sorrows into Air. refuses to make public. ! steadily for Smiths tobacco scented bosom, he oraIn this book are recorded the apBut be hurried in to snatch a bite to ejaculates: cularly s plications of Senators for the of eat. While be vvas gone I made inHide em, my dear liido 'em, brother members whom they expect to quiries as to liis identity, and finally where they cant find em. leave tho body. The publication of found a man who replied: That's all very well, but it is just the contents might prove extremely AlaCol. that's of Blank Why, there that the agony comes in, of not for some of the Senaembarrassing bama. He owned over 1100 niggers being able to remember yourself where tors who do not seem to X. V. regard highly when tlie war broke out. you put them. Then Ive tried look- the prospects of Sun. of some of ing dignified, and talking big about it: their colleagues. The Author Wanted. but whats tiie e when Ive frolicked Capt. Bassett knows by peculiar priSomebody wants to knoxv who wrote with them till their prevailing style of vate marks lie has placed upon them the immortal lines beginning: salutation to mo Now let ns girls the identical desks by Web-to- r, To I.ake Aglimnogencgauiook down in the do this or that, or go here, or there, Calhoun, Clay, Benton and other great Suite of Maine, Its no use. A man from XVUtrquergaiigiim statesmen. came one tell I Samson was not more you evening in the rain. Those desks are still in use, but tiie I am a traveller, said lie, "just started on a powerless in the hands of Delilah. captain keeps their location a profound tour, They pretend to say, these torments, secret, as lie does not want to be overk And go to morn that they make tiie liou-- e bl ight ; t run with applications for them and nt four. about hoxv some folks will find There vvas more of it, wherein the xvorriod by visitors xvlio want to see out their value when they get married traveller was them. by Skunk's taunt us with deeoiating their they Bo-hy lied Misery, Dog, Iershy room xxitii lovely ilowers on the occaOur Gallant Marines. Creek, A ou Bet, Yube Dam, and sion their of return after a short vi.-i-t, The American marines x ho did duty Bloody Gulch, until at last lie found and hugging and kissing them as if at the Paris sweet peace, with healing and rest Exposition guarding the they had been gone a year instead of a American exhibit wore accorded a all his from wanderings in some week. They' remind us of hot break- brilliant Shady nook, reception on tho 19th ult. in lieside the piea-awaters of Mooseluemag-untieoofasts, carefully provided when they Paris. Each officer and man xvas prelazily lay in bed after a late frolic the sented with a medal commemorative Can any of our readers throw light night before, and commiserating cups of liis service during the exposition. on the authorship of the lyric? Lew- of tea for sundry headaches, and stacks President Carnot and the Alini-ter- s of iston Journal. to beguile rainy days, Alarine and Foreign Affairs xvere of story-book- s repreand birth-da- y presents, ami all such sented, as xvere officers of the Txventv-eight- h Didn't Want It Mentioned. which of There is a small boy in this town little parental vveaknes-es- , Degiment of the Line, an infanvve course arc ashamed heartily of, and, try regiment which served in America who seldom speaks, but when he does lie alwav s says some: Ling smart. His if they keep on appropriating ottr during the Devolution. The marines latest is ile.- -t His elderly maiden aunt things, such as xve never mean to be will soon return home. Tlicv have rewas entertaining a young beau, and guilty of again, at least, not-ea- u -- if xve ceived much praise beeau-- e of their help it! they were looking over some picture bearing and martial appearance. New Letter in an old book filled with works of York Times. Kip. .. can , t ion ancient art. give a letter a good character. An exchange in a sentimental lioxv charming those costumes! The Booming South. remarked the aunt, gushingly; ..fioxv moment says the letter It is the best in Eight cotton factories, sixteen hanks the alphabet, because it is never found and various oilier I wish I had lived in tnose days when l,av0 in sin, but always in virtue and tem- been started in Southenterprise. p.eonle wore n'ji beautiful clothes. Carolina xx ithin Well, dnlu t vou;" piped in h perance. Yes. and you never si e it in a year. Corporations chartered behut it s ih'si in rum. riot and tween October, brill voice at her elbow-- and a mo- - an'" lss, and October, rchrllion, and a boxsmall ment later you cant get drunk nor llsSO, number cightv-txvwent to bed xvitb an swear without it. Where D you uoxv? with a tear in his eve. aggrega'e capital A over A Young Yale er re-ul- ts -- x u-- electro-therapeutic- note-pape- s, de-k- u-- i: u-- Noingam-kiilieon- hex-tal- nt k. , o, k Some Good Stories of the KoucJer the Family of .Millionaires. The reading given last week In- j. Coventry Waddell at her imxx Square home served to bring out n. interesting new anecdotes of dore Vanderbilt. Mrs. Wad.;, - T tl friendship with the founder ,,f Vanderbilt family was life-hher recollections of the great ii,lk getter are of a nature to ca.- a light upou liis personality. The lowing story illustrative of hi. in early youth xvas fold. pu-- h It is a fact that x ears Commodore Vanderbilt ailij perianger, ami it took daily a cas of green groceries to the New Y market. The shrewd way in wind, became skipper of bis tir-- t raft ; M.r thoroughly chararieri-;;that at the age of sixteen Ao j developed a strong affection fur r.a ing, sailing and other xvatcr An old Staten Island had ei E L -t eni-a- well-know- nd n -- t -. ii;-- xvliieh be offered to ,! ; $100, and Noilly thought that if j could only become the oxvner of j particular boat lie would indeed liappy. lie hadnt tiie money, h,-ever, and as a hist resource, applied his mother. she said, you see tt Neilly, eight-acr- e lot out there, pointing sail-bo- at . an stony field. Well, if j Neilly said lie did. xvill plough, harrow ami seed that you shall hux-- the $100. Neilly induced several boys of: neighborhood, by promises of jolly cursions, to turn in and help him. a week they had tiie job done, and $100 xvas paid over. Neilly t! beat the owner of the boat iloxvr $95, and purchased the craft at i. price. Tiie Commodore to the end bis days never ceased tJ regret that liis first sail he broke a hole in boat's bottom that it cost $5 to re Airs. Waddell once remarked to I dare say, n, Commodore, xvould be I xvealthy luul pockets in ti pier if they shrouds, in which they could carr the next world the xvealth they cumulate in this. Ah, no, replied Air. Vamlcri If shrouds had pockets the strife; he turmoil on AVall street creased fourfold. At ono time while living on St Island, the Commodore had an e: He n perutingly balky horse. could be sure that the brute wou. stop in the middle of the road. an., often walked in preference to t.ii chances xvith the animal. One ds started out and had driven only u half a mile when the beast came dead halt. An energetic belabor backing and saxving bad no effect , the Commodore turned around xvent home. He got a bag of t sugar and again started out, let the horse and feeding him a lunr every few steps. This lie conti until the place xvhere the hor-- c b. xvas passed, after xvliieh lie got ir had no difficulty in driving to unpromising-lookin- g c Nexv-Yorke- rs ES Eli Ap ELY A Ct., Pns pOHtp roam ytiri SE J. ft. H nnrh buY STA 60 rts. T8 ' journey's end. In telling the str Mrs. Waddell, he said: I have the same course of proceding women and it lias alxvays pro veil tivc. ( A Desirable Qualification. Commanding Officer So you to marry Private Alalone- - xi She is old enough to be your my Surely a smart young fellow lib could find a nice young girl xvlio take you? Private T. Atkins Voting lr well enough, sor; but 1 likes in net1 'ot, and I noticed Private alxvays had is dinner ot, so A' as you'll give me lave, sor. Jiu A Tramp Steamer. The tramp steamship Alarllsi: from the Philippine Islands a r of many misfortunes, xvas sei?' United States Deputy Alarshall at Philadelphia, on a claim for e 000, preferred by Ira Bur-letho York. It is ( hurried that of the Marlborough xvas ueghg' not having sufficient fuel on v necessitating tiie burning of a tlw cargo of sugar. '$ y, I1 A Midnight flaking. The butch of (lough set on the to raise by an Erie County, F rania, housexvife, raised so cb that it aroused the family, ns xvliieh had been placed over n on the floor. The lady, in c save the batch. got u middle of the night ami hlk bread. penc toun choi the resor regti proai Whc all t W Main Fooling .Maine 111111101'' If you xx'ould gaze on an es Abu111' superb disgust, find the at fired 'e. he who thought orbs of a ferocious wildcat a1 " that he had xvard discox-eretomato can with d shot-hole- s. Sn Cure all de |